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I am part of a team that is dedicated to rethinking and redesigning the high school and college classrooms in chemistry as well as in mathematics and science.
We have developed the PERC model (the Peer Enabled Restructured Classroom) for the urban, high school classroom (see PERC website). This model harnesses the capacity of high school students to learn to teach other students and thereby learn about themselves as students and as leaders. The PERC model relies on teachers to teach differently and to invite students into the classroom as teaching assistants. Drawing from the co-teaching, peer tutoring, and peer leadership literature, the PERC model is a research-based model that is proving to be highly effective in the high schools. The development of this model has been and continues to be supported by an NSF Math Science Partnership (MSP) grant.
The college classroom culture is rapidly becoming archaic and in need of significant change. How does modern technology interact with increasingly large numbers of students to create effective college science classrooms? What are college lecture hall best practices in the 21st century? What role do peers play in these practices? We have integrated technology into our large lecturers and are developing new strategies to reach more students and enable more tailored teaching and learning. We have adapted many peer leadership models (Peer Led Team Learning, Supplemental Instruction) to our lecture halls and engage in continual assessment. We have shown that very large lecture halls (600-800 students) can be as successful as smaller halls (80 students).
The development of new educational practices occurs only through teamwork. I draw on my traditional training in theoretical chemistry to contribute to teams of educators, mathematicians, scientists, and students to rethink the modern classroom. Collaboration is the key and I am very grateful to have a wonderful set of colleagues at Hunter (Profs. Sweeney, McGregor, and Smeureanu) at in the education community at large.
Selected Publications
"A Simple Mercury-Free Laboratory Apparatus To Study the Relationship between Pressure, Volume, and Temperature in a Gas," Donna McGregor, William V. Sweeney, and Pamela Mills, J. Chem. Edu, Publication Date (Web): January 27, 2012 (Article)
"Using the First Exam for Student Placement in Beginning Chemistry Courses," P. Mills, W. Sweeney, S. Bonner (2009) J. Chem. Edu, 86, 738-743.
Letter to the Editor: Does Test Prep Have a Place in the Classroom?, W Sweeney, P Mills, New York Times, June 24, 2008.
"Bond breaking misconception" P. Mills, W. Sweeney (2007) Journal of College Science Teaching, 37, 11.
Study Guide for The Practice of Chemistry, D. Wink, Freeman (2004)
"Experiencing and Visualizing the First Law of Thermodynamics," P. Mills, W. Sweeney, W. Cieniewicz, (2001) J. Chem. Edu,78, 1360-1361.S. Demeo, P. Mills, "Looking for Linearity: Integrating Graphing for First Year Chemistry Students", (2001), Chemical Educator, 6, 2-4.
P. Mills, W. Sweeney, R. Marino, S. Clarkson, "A New Approach to Teaching Introductory Science: The Gas Module," (2000) J. Chem. Edu. 77, 1161-1165.
P. Mills, S. DeMeo, W. Sweeney, R. Marino, S. Clarkson, "Using Poster Sessions as Examinations: The Poster Exam", (2000) J. Chem. Edu. 77, 1158-1161.


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Alhumdulillah, we conduct a weekly Quran tafseer & hadith halaqa program after every Friday following Maghrib salat.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There it was, plain as could be on the overhead scoreboard, orange numbering on a black background: As the closing seconds ticked away Thursday night, Belmont was beating Duke.
Read that again, slowly: No. 15-seeded Belmont was beating No. 2 Duke. Belmont, the Atlantic Sun Conference school with zero NCAA tournament wins to its credit, was leading Duke, the Atlantic Coast Conference school with three national championships on its resume.
And yet it was not to be.
Using every last one of Gerald Henderson's 21 points, including the go-ahead basket with 11.9 seconds left, and one key steal by DeMarcus Nelson, Duke barely avoided what would have been a monumental upset, edging Belmont 71-70 in the first round of the West Regional.
"The last two or three minutes, I was sitting there thinking, 'We're really in this game.' We were so close to winning," Belmont's Henry Harris said. "There's a bit of amazement in your brain, just sitting there: 'Wow!' "
Teeny, tiny Belmont was long past wondering whether one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history was possible. Turns out, so was mighty, mighty Duke.
Yes, it occurred to the Blue Devils, too, that the seemingly impossible might somehow suddenly be possible.
"We wouldn't be human if it didn't," Duke guard Jon Scheyer said. "We knew the situation. There was so much pressure on us. Pressure to win. Ninety percent of the building wanted us to lose."
Instead, Duke (28-5) snapped a two-game tournament losing streak and advanced to face West Virginia, a 75-65 winner over Arizona, on Saturday.
It was much tougher than anyone could have expected beforehand, considering the pedigrees of the participants and this little tidbit: Only four times has a No. 15 defeated a No. 2 in the tournament.
But Belmont used a mix of backdoor cuts and headiness down the stretch to keep things close.
"Watching them on tape, they looked really good," said Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who extended his record to 69 career tournament victories. "Watching them in person, they're even better."
And so the Bruins (25-9) stayed in the game, repeatedly clawing back from deficits as large as 10 points.
Duke led 42-35 at halftime, an edge built at the foul line, where the Blue Devils were 11-for-15, and the Bruins were 2-for-4. Otherwise, in nearly every regard, Belmont played Duke even for those first 20 minutes. The field-goal stats were exactly the same: 14-for-29.
Duke pulled ahead 51-41 in the second half, but Belmont came back with a 9-0 run. Duke padded the margin again, but Belmont responded with an 8-0 spurt. Duke led 69-65 with 2:40 left, but Andy Wicke made a 3-pointer to cut it to one.
And after a Duke miss, Justin Hare grabbed the rebound, was fouled, and made both free throws to give Belmont the lead -- the lead! -- with 2:02 left in the game. It was 70-69, Belmont, right there for everyone to see, and the crowd was roaring.
"That was really the most exhilarating feeling that I've ever had coaching. That's when I thought we were going to go all the way," said Belmont coach Rick Byrd, whose team was routed by UCLA and Georgetown in its other NCAA appearances. "At first, you hope to be competitive. Then you hope, 'Don't beat us by 20.' And that never really happened. It became like a regular-season Atlantic Sun game, really."
Alas, on this night, on the verge of beating one of the sport's most storied programs, Belmont would not score again.
It would be Henderson's driving basket with 11.9 seconds left that erased Belmont's final lead.
Then, with Belmont inbounding the ball under its own basket, Alex Renfroe tried to throw a lob pass that was intercepted by ACC defensive player of the year Nelson. He missed at the line, Belmont got the rebound, and had one final chance to make history. The Bruins got the ball in safely this time, with 2.2 seconds left, and their leading scorer, Hare, got a good look at the basket from about 35 feet away.
"It felt good," Hare said later.
But the shot was a tad long. The ball bounced off the iron. Hare winced.
Duke, meanwhile, celebrated as though it had won far more than an opening-round game -- something it actually failed to do a year ago, upset by Virginia Commonwealth.
Throughout Thursday, the teams' body language was telling at timeouts.
Belmont's players would be trailing, yet they skipped to the sideline and were met with high-fives, pats on the back and yells of encouragement. Duke's players, in the lead but hardly thrilled, trudged over slowly, some looking at the floor.
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Here's Alexander Ovechkin just minutes after Russia's quarterfinal loss, talking with the CBC's Elliotte Friedman. He is devastated.
Ovechkin, who scored just one goal in five games, figures to come in for more than his fair share of the blame just because he's the biggest name on a team that appeared stacked with scorers, and came in with expectations that outstripped the reality of this tournament.
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Flix Brewhouse is America's Cinema Brewery® – the only first run movie theater in the world to incorporate a fully functioning microbrewery. By combining these concepts, Flix delivers to your theater seat three of America's great loves – craft beer, great food and the latest movies! All of our stadium seating "dining rooms" are outfitted with the latest high-definition digital cinema projection and sound technologies, wall-to-wall curved screens, cushy high back chairs, and our revolutionary Easy Glider moveable table top. We brew nine of our own beers and offer 38 other draft beers for guests to enjoy. We also offer an extensive wine selection and a variety of specialty non-alcoholic drinks. The Flix Mix lobby bar and cafe is open seven days a week to the public, no ticket required, so you can come in and grab a bite to eat or have a locally brewed beer anytime!
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Maryville College appreciates every gift. Giving societies allow MC the opportunity to recognize the generosity of its many supporters.
Society of 1819
The Society of 1819 recalls the year Maryville College was founded, and serves to recognize those who have included the College in their estate and financial plans. Gifts may include gifts by will, charitable trusts, revocable living trusts, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder or charitable lead trusts, retained life estates, or life insurance and retirement funds. Names of members are published annually in the President's Report. Members also receive a certificate of appreciation and invitations to annual gatherings.
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President's Circle
Donors who give $1,000 or more in the fiscal year (June 1 - May 31) are members of the President's Circle. Members are invited to attend the President's Circle reception at Homecoming. There are four President's Circle levels:
- Benefactor: $10,000 or more
- Fellow: $5,000 to $9,999
- Patron: $2,500 to $4,999
- Member: $1,000 to $2,499
Thomas Jefferson Lamar Society
Named for the College's greatest advocate of the 19th century, the Lamar Society recognizes donors who contribute between $500 and $999 during the fiscal year.
William Thaw Society
Named for the College's greatest benefactor of the 19th century whose gifts helped finance the reopening of the College following the Civil War, the Thaw Society recognizes those who contribute between $250 and $499 during the fiscal year.
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Through their contributions of $100 to $249 during the fiscal year, members of the Century Club provide vital financial support which enables Maryville College to continue its pursuit of excellence.
Donors making gifts up to $99 during the fiscal year are recognized as providing the support needed to help sustain the College throughout the year.
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Named for the founder and first president of Maryville College, the Isaac Anderson Society extends membership to those donors with cumulative gifts of $10,000 and more.
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The Carmel Road corridor is a collection of subdivisions on both sides of Carmel Road with Carmel Country Club in the center. Carmel Road is one of Charlotte's prime locations conveniently tucked between outstanding shopping areas of SouthPark Mall and the Arboretum. The homes are mainly custom built with prices but can range in price from $250's to well up into the millions depending on which subdivision. Lot sizes vary depending on which subdivision you are looking at but tend to be larger than average for suburban homes.
Carmel Country Club is one of Charlotte's most active and sought after private golf clubs. There are two championship level course, an outstanding pool complex and tennis facility. Their LGA (Ladies Golf Association) is one of the most active in the entire Charlotte area. Carmel Country Club's kids programs are second to none with one of the best pool facilities of any club in Charlotte, junior golf and tennis opportunities abound.
Royden is quiet beautifully landscaped neighborhood of about 140 homes. Royden started in the late 1980's and was complete in mid 1990's. These custom homes on large lots provide the residents of Royden a picture perfect community. Home prices start in upper $700's and go up from there.
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On February 12, Stormbringer.at webzine conducted an interview with Swedish metallers ENFORCER before their concert at Viper Room in Vienna, Austria. You can now watch the chat below.
ENFORCER released its new album, "Death By Fire", on February 1 via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD artwork was created by Jonathan Hultèn of Necromantic Art and can be seen below.
"Death By Fire" track listing:
01. Bells Of Hades
02. Death Rides This Night
03. Run For Your Life
04. Mesmerized By Fire
05. Take Me Out Of This Nightmare
06. Crystal Suite
07. Sacrificed
08. Silent Hour / The Conjugation
09. Satan
The official video for the song "Mesmerized By Fire" from ENFORCER can be seen below. The clip was filmed with director, and the band's longtime friend, Gustav Öhman Spjuth. The group states: "We really feel we have something special to show this time, and it's definitely not just any other video."
The "Mesmerized By Fire" seven-inch single was released on January 18.
The track listing for the effort is as follows:
Side A: "Mesmerized By Fire"
Side B: "You Can Be" (non-album track)
In addition to the limited-edition vinyl, there was also be a digital release.
Commented ENFORCER guitarist/vocalist Olof Wikstrand: "'Mesmerized By Fire' is more or less the title track from the 'Death By Fire' album. I think within four minutes it captures pretty much everything about ENFORCER: intensity and power mixed with a touch of melody and melancholy. The B-side is a cover of NAGAZAKI's 'You Can Be'. It is a track with mega potential from a band that unfortunately never made it in the '80s."
ENFORCER's second album, "Diamonds", was released in May 2010 in Europe by Earache Records and in the rest of the world through Heavy Artillery.
Having released its debut album, "Into the Night", in November 2008, ENFORCER kicked open the floodgates for the return of traditional heavy metal, paving the way for many other young bands to follow. With critical acclaim pouring in from fans and the international music press, ENFORCER wasted no time taking their show to the road for their first European and American tours as well as a litany of appearances at many of Europe's most highly regarded festivals.
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Jen: As a former Jen's Jewels, I am thrilled to welcome you back again. Your latest release, Eyes on You, is a peek into the cut-throat world of television. Please give us a brief overview of the premise, and why you chose to tackle this specific topic.
Kate: It's about a TV host named Robin Trainer who realizes one day that she has a secret enemy. At first she thinks the nasty pranks this person pulls are just minor stuff, but they soon escalate, and it's clear that this enemy really wants to bring her down. What's even scarier is that it's someone she knows and sees every day but she has no idea who.
Jen: In terms of nuts and bolts, approximately how long did it take for you to complete the manuscript? And, what was the most challenging part of the process?
Kate: I try to finish each book in a year, based on what the publisher demands, and I have to say that's really the most challenging part. Readers expect you to come out with a book a year. But it would be heaven to have a few months in advance of writing to really think about the next idea. As is, I have to be thinking of a new idea while I'm finishing up the most current book.
Jen: In what way did you draw from your own professional experiences in order to make the storyline ring true with your readers?
Kate: I've been on a lot of television shows and my husband was a TV anchor for many years. Though I wouldn't want to be a TV personality, that world fascinates me and I tried to draw on all the mental notes I'd taken while being on shows and watching my husband's career. I also brought in some of the office politics I'd witnessed in my job. You can run into some very difficult people at work.
Jen: Professionally, you have been involved in both print and television. Do you have a preference, and why?
Kate: Oh print for sure compared to television, and more and more, digital. My family always gets excited when I'm on TV but I'm just not drawn to that professionally. I love to write and edit.
Jen: The sexual tension between Robin Trainer and her co-anchor, Carter Brooks, boosts the show's television ratings, but also causes her to become a target for jealous naysayers. In light of her circumstances, why does Robin choose to keep the evil threats against her private rather than garnering public support?
Kate: Robin's boss has called her on the carpet about poaching a guest from the show of another anchor, Vicky Cruz. Robin feels that because of her boss's actions, it would be best at this time not to be at the center of any drama, so she doesn't say anything initially. I've learned from the few tough bosses I've had that it's important to read them and to hear them. Or it's, "Ouch!"
Jen: Immediately, Robin points the finger at her colleague, Vicky Cruz, as the source behind the personal attacks. Why does Robin choose not to confront her head-on? Is Robin's ladylike demeanor a sign of weakness, or a mere act of brilliance as she waits for the situation to implode in due time?
Kate: Robin just doesn't have enough proof. That's the scary thing. The culprit never leaves any real clues to his or her identity.
Jen: As the threats continue, how does it affect Robin's relationship with her peers and upper management?
Kate: Yes. When you start claiming that someone is after you, there's a real danger that people will think you're exaggerating—or crazy!
Jen: How does the influence of social media today affect a person's (such as your character Robin's) climb up the corporate ladder?
Kate: It depends on the field. A year or so ago, an editor in chief of a woman's magazine who had no social media presence was replaced by someone with 30,000 followers. Look around you. Is it important in your job or your field? I always say that it's key in a job to not just look ahead but behind you. What are younger people doing? But if it's not necessary, don't waste your time.
Jen: Let's switch gears now and talk about your promotional plans. Please take us on a brief tour of your website highlighting points of interest.
Kate: I actually have two websites. katewhite.com for my mysteries and katewhitecareers.com for my career books and information. It's not what I'd advise for every author but I have two distinct types of books I love to write.
Jen: What is the best way for my readers to keep abreast of your latest news?
Kate: Katewhite.com. I list all my news on the site.
Jen: Are you currently at work on your next book? If so, what may you share with my readers?
Kate: Oh, I love the book I'm working on now. It's about a woman who meets an attractive man on vacation who is from her same city and when she arrives at his apartment for a date, post-vacation, the man who answers the door isn't him.
Jen: When taking a break from writing, how do you like to spend your free time?
Kate: I love to cook—in fact, I just finished editing the Mystery Writers of America cookbook, due out next April. I love to travel, particularly adventure travel. Part of the year, I live in Uruguay, which I absolutely love. Wonderful country. And, don't tell anyone, I am a fanatic about bird watching.
Jen: Are you involved in any charitable causes that have influenced you in a personal or professional way?
Kate: Yes, but I like to be under the radar with that.
Jen: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to chat with my readers. Best of luck in all of your future projects!
Kate: Thank you so much for giving me the chance to speak to your fans!!
Readers, I hope you have enjoyed my interview with Kate White. Please stop by your local bookstore, library, or online retailer and pick up a copy of Eyes on You today. Better yet, how would you like to win a free copy instead? Okay, send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com with the correct answer to the following trivia question and you'll be entered into the contest. Good luck! (Offer void where prohibited.)
What is the name of the lead character in Eyes on You?
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Calmeadow is a registered Canadian NGO*, with operations based in San José, Costa Rica. Since 1985 Calmeadow has supported innovative ideas in microfinance; ideas that promote greater levels of efficiency and outreach through the commercial provision of financial services to low-income borrowers and microentrepreneurs. From humble beginnings as a family charity, Calmeadowâ��s work has produced far reaching impacts on the global microfinance industry and the foundation has advocated and participated in several of the landmark microfinance events in recent years. Given the tremendous growth of the microfinance industry in terms of practitioners, funders, and industry organizations, the role of Calmeadow has changed some. However, Calmeadow continues to focus on the bottlenecks and frontiers of this rapidly changing sector with the goal of promoting appropriate and efficient financial services for low-income individuals and their businesses provided by commercial financial institutions.
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Calmeadow seeks to enable the self-employed poor in developing countries to strengthen their enterprises and achieve improved standards of living for themselves and their families.
Calmeadow works to ensure ready access to sustainable and affordable financial services for the self-employed poor around the globe, and to mobilize and manage capital for direct investment in developing microfinance institutions in Latin America and Africa.
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"This hope we have as an anchor of the soul..." -- Hebrews 6:19
Romans 8:35, 37-39. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Christ who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus."
There is hope for people with HIV infection! We are learning to survive for longer periods of time. The first big step is believing that you can be among the (as yet) small percentage of those who are beating the odds. You can believe that God wants you to be healthy, active, and living a full quality life. You can believe that God is still healing people, even people with HIV! GOD IS GREATER THAN AIDS!
Longterm survival of HIV infection is becoming a greater reality with the development of new medical treatments. There is a great deal that you can do to create the conditions for your physicians' medicines to work, and to increase your quality of life, as well as your length of life.
In a paper from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, George F. Solomon, M.D., Lydia Temoshok, Ph.D., Ann O'Leary, Ph.D., and Jane Zich, Ph.D., describe "An Intensive Psychoimmunologic Study of Long-Surviving Persons with AIDS." The purpose of the study, conducted in 1987, was to understand how longterm survivors are different from people who follow the expected course of the disease. The paper states, "While the prevalent belief is that AIDS is invariably fatal, there is a growing number of individuals who are alive and well three, four, and even five years after an AIDS diagnosis."
A number of common factors thought to be significant to longterm survival were described. Here, these factors will be related to scriptures and spiritual principles, which serve as a guide for further exploration and study.
No longterm survivor perfectly fits all the attributes listed in the study. And illness progressed in plenty of people who followed many of these principles. There are no guarantees! Therefore, these principles should not be used as a weapon against yourself, to make your life more stressful than it already is; but as a guide to creating quality of life, as well as length of life.
The Principles
1. Longterm survivors understand and accept the reality of the HIV/AIDS diagnosis, but also refuse to believe that the syndrome is an automatic, imminent death sentence.
II Corinthians 4:7-10. "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the higher power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies."
All of us will die someday, and with HIV, that seems a more pressing reality. But in accepting the inevitability of death someday, we strengthen our resolve to live life more fully in the here and now. Thus we can acknowledge and deal realistically with the diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, and still maintain courage and hope to survive. We can believe in the promise of abundant life, shown through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. You can stubbornly insist on living!
2. Longterm survivors believe that they can cope actively with the disease, and refuse to succumb to a "helpless-hopeless" state.
Mark 5: 25-29; 34. "And there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and who had received treatment from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his garment. For she said, 'If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well.' And immediately the bleeding ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease... And Jesus said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.'"
Hopelessness happens when we feel helpless to do anything about our condition. But just as the woman in this story (a scriptural longterm survivor!) went to great lengths for twelve years to try and heal her condition, there is a lot you can do to help yourself survive for years! Prayer, meditation, exercise, good nutrition, getting the rest you need, keeping informed of the latest developments in treatment of HIV, staying involved, and making sure you laugh every day are steps that you can take towards actively coping with HIV.
3. Longterm survivors make appropriate, individualized adjustments in personal habits and behaviors to accommodate living with the disease.
II Corinthians 5:17. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, that person is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
When you are diagnosed with HIV, it feels like everything changes. Suddenly you find your perspective changing, priorities may change, some habits may need to be broken, and good habits formed. To be a new creation in Christ, living with HIV may mean examining all kinds of behaviors and attitudes that are keeping you from being the fully alive person God made you to be!
4. Longterm survivors see the physician as a collaborator, and take an active part in decisions related to treatment. There is a sense of personal responsibility for health, and a belief that they personally can influence the outcome of the disease.
Genesis 2:19-20. "So out of the ground God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the human to see what they would be called; and whatever the human called every living creature, that was its name."
One understanding of this part of the Creation story says that we human beings are co-creators with God: we are partners with God in caring for Creation. Similarly, we are co-creators with our physicians of our wellness. We are partners with our doctors in creating the conditions for healing and wellness. It is important to find a physician who understands this, and seeks your active participation in decisions related to treatment.
5. Longterm survivors show a "commitment to life": there are unfulfilled goals, dreams, or unfinished business.
Deuteronomy 30:19. "Therefore, choose life."
II Corinthians 1:8-10. "For we do not want you to be ignorant of the affliction we experienced... for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. We felt that we had received the sentence of death; but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead; God has delivered us from so deadly a peril, and God will deliver us; on God we have set our hope that we will be delivered again."
We believe in a God of life, as shown to us in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is life-giving to focus on the goal of "the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:14) Many people with HIV have gone back to school to earn or finish a degree. Some have stayed alive with the hope created by an exciting project that they always wanted to do. Identify your dreams and goals and pursue them!
6. Longterm survivors find meaning and purpose in life and even in the disease itself.
II Corinthians 4:16-18. "So we do not lose heart... For this slight present affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
It is life-giving to look for the meaning in life, to ask questions like "Why do people suffer?" The Psalms are full of laments of people who keep asking where God is, or why God is allowing this to happen. Through much of the book of Job, Job rails against God, demanding an explanation from God for the seemingly pointless sufferings of his life. So ask the questions! Try to find answers! It is a healthy pursuit, and you are in good company!
7. Longterm survivors have usually had a previous experience with beating a life threatening illness, or overcoming difficult situations and events.
Romans 5: 3-5. "...We rejoice in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us."
For those of us with HIV who are Gay or Lesbian, coming out may be the difficult passage that taught us we have the strength and faith to face life's challenges, including physical and spiritual challenges like HIV infection. Many people with HIV who are recovering alcoholics or addicts report that the tools they use to achieve and maintain sobriety have given them excellent coping skills for life with HIV.
8. Longterm survivors report the importance of support and information from other persons with HIV, and furthermore, are usually involved in active service to other persons with HIV.
Matthew 18:20. "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there shall I be also."
I Corinthians 12: 7; 26_. "To each is given the evidence of the spirit for the common good... If one member suffers, all suffer together, if one member is honored, all rejoice together._
When you are newly diagnosed with HIV, there is no one who understands what you are going through quite like another person with HIV. The information network among people with HIV has for many years been one of the most important survival tools available. And many people have discovered the value of getting outside of themselves by actively getting involved with HIV/AIDS work. It is life-giving to be involved with other people, to be a part of a community, to feel you are doing something to help when some people expect you to feel helpless! It is in community that we encounter the Risen Christ.
9. Longterm survivors are assertive, can say "No," and withdraw from involvements when self-care becomes necessary.
Ephesians 4:26. "If you are angry, let it be without sin: Do not let the sun go down on your anger."
Matthew 14:23. "And after Jesus had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone..."
It has long been noted that people who survive life-threatening illnesses against all odds are the ones who are assertive about their needs. This may mean getting angry and demanding your rights as a patient in a hospital. It may mean demanding your right to withdraw and nurture yourself when you need to rest. Now is the time to give yourself those things which feed you emotionally and spiritually, as well as physically.
10. Longterm survivors develop an ability to read their body, sensitively care for it, and communicate openly about their concerns.
II Corinthians 12:7-9. "And to keep me from being too conceited by the extraordinary revelations, a thorn was given to me in the flesh... to harass me, to keep me from being too proud. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it should leave me; but God said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me."
Even with the best self-care program and the greatest faith, people with HIV experience infections and illnesses. It is important to be aware of the body's signals, and to be assertive about communicating concerns to a health care professional. Times of illness, which can produce great fear and anxiety, can be transformed into opportunities to experience God's living grace. When you're sick, it's easy to feel down, and wonder what you did to deserve this. But God didn't give you this illness. A virus did. God is with you!
Isaiah 41:10. "Fear not; I am with you. Be not dismayed; I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand."
More and more people are living longer and longer with HIV infection, and are enjoying full, exciting lives. Many people with HIV and AIDS have learned through their diagnosis to embrace all of life, including illness, and even death. And that, by God's grace, allows us to be joyfully alive, even with HIV infection.
It is only when we can truly embrace the inevitability of death that we can fully embrace the truth of the Resurrection. And that truth tells us that when we live with a life-threatening infection like HIV, we believe that the Risen Christ, Immanuel, God-with-us, is alive, here and now, helping us to transform our pain, fear, and anger into life-giving, creative action.
Look for God's grace every day. Look for evidence of the Resurrection! Believe in God's love for you, and in turn, share that love with others, and that will give you life.
To paraphrase Paul, "I am absolutely convinced that nothing in life, not even AIDS, not even death, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus."
A Prayer for Deliverance
Psalm 57:1. "Be gracious to me, oh God; be gracious to me, for my soul takes refuge in you; and in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, until destruction passes by."
This was written by the Rev. Dr. Stephen Pieters, a longterm survivor (since 1982) of HIV infection. Although diagnosed with full-blown AIDS, Kaposi's Sarcoma, and lymphoma, he experienced complete remission of his cancers while on an experimental drug, suramin, in 1985, and has been clinically well in all respects since 1986. Pieters is the Field Director of AIDS Ministry for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches. Note: The study quoted is published in The Annals of The New York Academy of Science: 496: 647-655, 1987. Scriptural quotations are paraphrased by Rev. Pieters, based upon comparison of various translations.
For more information, write or call:
The UFMCC AIDS Ministry
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches
5300 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 304
Los Angeles, CA 90029
(213) 464-5100; fax (213) 464-2123.


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Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
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What are the rules for adding suffixes to words ending in y? Students learn the answer to this question in this interactive spelling lesson. This lesson is built on the philosophy that spelling should not be taught in isolation; weekly spelling lists should include either related words or high-frequency words that appear in student writing. Teachers begin with a brainstorming session to generate a list of suffixes and an introduction to "The Y Rule." Using the technique of spelling cheerleading, students integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities. Students cheer new words based upon the formation of each letter. Students then apply their knowledge of the spelling generalization by completing a word sort and writing a stapleless book that describes the y generalization.
|The Y Rule poster: Students can refer to this poster to help them remember the rule for adding suffixes to words ending in y.
Rogers, L.K. (1999). Spelling cheerleading. The Reading Teacher, 53(2), 110111.
- Effective spelling instruction is vital for emergent readers and part of the larger instruction in reading and writing.
- Spelling cheerleading is a whole-group activity that fits comfortably in the creation of a Word Wall or the practice of spelling the words in the weekly spelling list. As an occasional alternative to sitting at their desks, students chant and clap the new words.
- Students position their hands and arms straight above their heads for letters touching the headline, place their hands on their hips for letters touching the midline, and touch their hands to the floor for letters that stretch below the baseline.
- Spelling cheerleading integrates visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities that aid in retention and understanding, especially for struggling readers and writers.


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Lime Microsystems, the multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver IC company, is collaborating with Percello Ltd., an Israeli fabless semiconductor company developing highly integrated and low-cost digital baseband for UMTS and LTE networks, to develop a flexible high-performance reference platform for femtocell designs.
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The LMS6002 is a multi-band multi-standard RF transceiver IC designed for femtocells and small cell base stations. The transceiver operates at user-selectable frequencies between 375 MHz and 4 GHz and is suitable for 3G, WiMAX and LTE standards. It can be digitally configured to operate in the full range of frequency bands, with 16 user-selectable bandwidths up to 28 MHz. This removes the need for individual transceiver chips for each of the different bands, and allows a small cell base station to be reconfigured rapidly and simply.
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Gerald W. "Jerry: Gump, age 86, a longtime resident of Kent, passed away Saturday, November 17, 2012, at Akron City Hospital.
He was born February 24, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan, a son of the late Gaylord William and Nellie (Meagher) Gump. Gerald was a proud veteran of the US Army, serving as a First Sergeant in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Jerry was a construction engineer, retiring in 1990 from Republic Steel/LTV in Cleveland. Even after retirement, he remained an engineer. Jerry was constantly looking over blueprints, admiring bridges and construction, and keeping himself occupied.
Jerry loved the community of Kent. He was a member of St. Patrick Parish in Kent, and the Knights of Columbus. He graduated from Kent State High School, playing on the varsity ice hockey team. He enjoyed golfing and reading, but most of all was dedicated to his family. Jerry was always willing to lend a helping hand to anyone in need.
Gerald is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years Anita (McAllister) Gump and their children: Cathy (Alvin) Gorham, Denise Eagle, Maureen Watson, Edward (Jennifer) Gump, William Gump, Nadine (Dan) Gump Saldana, Judith Wilke, and Sherry (Todd) Blair; daughter-in-law: Carolyn Gump; sister: Karen (Jim) Roach; and brother-in-law: Tom Fisher. Jerry's memory will also be cherished by his 18 grandchildren as well as his many loving great-grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his daughter Debbie Green, son Kenneth Gump, brother John Gump, and sisters Bernadette Griggy, Loretta Fisher, and Ida Mae Morson.
Friends will be received Monday, November 19, 2012, from 5:00 - 7:00 PM at the Wood-Kortright-Borkoski Funeral Home, 703 E. Main St., Ravenna. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Reverend Richard Pentello on Tuesday at 10:00 AM at St. Patrick Church, 313 North Depeyster St., Kent (Please meet at the church). Interment will follow at Standing Rock Cemetery with military honors provided by the US Army and American Legion Post 496 in Kent.
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In a remote rural county of Oregon, a radical proposition is being placed before the voters that Silverwolf thinks is very significant for radical Individualist Libertarianism, not only because it attacks the Corporate Poisoners, who, in collusion with the Democrats, are slowly poisoning not only the beautiful lands in Oregon, but the local residents as well, but also because the Initiative would place the Rights of Individuals above the fictitious "Rights" of Corporations. These Corporate mass poisonings of the Public, through aerial spraying of dangerous pesticides adjacent to residential properties and lands, in order to swell the corporate coffers of the pesticide Industry, are the fruits of what anti-Fascist Historian Dave Emory has called the Borman Underground Reich Capital Network, which is basically the wealth looted by the Nazis during WWII translated into corporate power throughout the world. The poisoning of Oregonians with Bayer pesticides is not very different, morally speaking, from the mass poisoning of Jews by Bayer during World War II, except in scale, only now the Democrats are defending the Nazis, instead of attacking them (though, of course, Roosevelt wouldn't bomb the rail lines leading to the concentration camps, or even the camps themselves). The disgusting Democratic Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, fully backs these attacks on the health of Oregon's citizens and children, and the attacks on the value of their properties when pesticide residues drift onto their land. And this Shower calls himself not only a Governor but also an M.D.
The group opposing the Fascists and their Democrat Collaborators is the Freedom From Pesticides Alliance at freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org, which is based in Josephine County, Oregon. The actual initiative they are placing on the ballot can be read at their website.
Residential Property Owners must betake themselves to the defense of the environmental integrity of their demesnes, or this will become a rotten realm, fit for no man to live in henceforth. The Democrats and Republicans are destroying the Earth, as are the leaders of virtually every other country, from Valerie Puta, the Russian Whore, in her Siberia, to the Indonesian Tree Butchers of Borneo, to the Nazis with Suntans down under, murdering their kangaroos and deforesting the continent while they push boatloads of women and children back to sea, to the Japanese, Singaporean, and Malaysian investors, who make their money by destroying the rainforests of Asia.
And added to the massive spraying of toxic pesticides adjacent to the properties of Individual Free-Market Capitalists, is a proposed increase in logging and spraying by the Democrat, Congressman Peter DeFazio, which comes in the face of what the other day the UN called a 95% certain chance that global warming is taking place due to Human activity. Trees are Carbon Banks. The Democrats, including Obama and DeFazio, tell us that we have global warming and urgently need a carbon tax, but at the same time DeFazio introduces a Bill that increases logging on so-called "public lands" though they are administered by the BLM as a lucrative boondoggle for themselves and their Fascist, timber-corporation bedfellows. BLM collaboration pays the lucrative salaries, benefit packages, and pensions of the BLM bureaucrats.
So even though living trees are known to be wonderful carbon banks, DeFazio tells us we must cut more trees, as at the same time he tells us we should pay a carbon tax for the sake of the Planet and the coming generations. At the same time, he permits the use of atrazine in America, around children, when it has been banned in the EU since 2003, a ban he critically called for in the 1980s, but now is mum on. What a hypocritical Shower is Liberal Democrat Congressman Peter DeFazio!
(For an exhaustive examination of the pesticides which the Democratic Corporate Fascists are permitting to be sprayed on Americans, you can refer to preciousdirt.org, which is an excellent site for such information.)
It is only Libertarians, who want to defend their Inalienable Natural Right to the Quiet Enjoyment of their Property, and Environmentalists, who rarely seem to understand Free-Market economics, and who seem to have an animus against Capitalism, despite all the benefits it has brought to man's basic standard of living, but who also share the Libertarians desire to have their properties free from invasion by toxic poisons — it is only these two groups who seem motivated enough to challenge the gradual Corporate Nazification of America, conducted by the mainstream Democrats and Republicans.
Silverwolf has written in the past of how these two philosophies, Libertarianism and Environmentalism, must come together and merge if we are ever to have a free world of free people in an unpolluted environ. A radical, Individual Jeffersonian Libertarianism, as seen in the original Bill of Rights and Constitution, is ultimately based on the defense of Individual Property Rights (and Professor Rothbard has clearly explained how all Rights, including Civil Rights, are ultimately forms of Property Rights, including the Right to own your own body), Environmentalism, a loving of the Earth and Nature, and a wanting to preserve them as pristinely as possible, is also a type of Property Rights Defense Movement, although here the aim is the survival and health of the Human Race and all Life on Earth.
Through the legal weapon of the Freedom from Pesticide Bill of Rights, the voters of Josephine County will have a chance to prohibit the use of pesticides by corporate or government entities on all lands within the county except private residential lands. Though they have been accused of being on the side of corporations by the Left, Libertarians like Professor Murray Rothbard have repeatedly said that no one has the right to pollute the air you breathe or the water you drink. And, of course, one of the main Libertarian concepts, along the with Non-aggression Axiom, is the idea of freedom from invasion, whether of ones body by pesticide poisoning, rape, assault, or the Draft, or of ones property, like ones land.
As to the Crimes of Child Poisoning and Well Poisoning, — the Governmental Authority at the Federal and State levels has the responsibility and the authority to stop aggressions against Individuals like child poisonings, but that authority this day has become an abuse against Individual Property Rights to the very pitch of wickedness. The Crimes of Well Poisoning and Child Poisoning are so heinous that they may well warrant Capital Punishment, though that might sound extreme. and we have always strongly opposed the Death Penalty on Principle. But we'd settle for Life on Gruel at dull labor, which is what many Law-abiding Americans end up with, or even having the bottom fall out of their corporate stock portfolios, which in America is an even more feared form of Capital Punishment. ("Go ahead and execute me, but Please don't ruin my stock portfolio!" cried the Corporate CEO at his trial.) Certainly such Crimes deserve at least 20 years in jail.
Governor Kitzhaber and Congressman DeFazio are Corporate Fascists who need to be impeached. These Showers are typical of the bulk of Democratic Politicians, just as deadly to children as the Corporate Republicans. It is a long way to the day when Silverwolf's dream of having all buildings subterranean is realized, with the surface of the earth looking like one huge contiguous park or forest (and any necessary buildings above ground designed in the Gothic style of Oxford and Cambridge), but the first step to even having an Earth populated by Humans, Animals and Trees may be contained within this Bill.
It seems to us that in using the "Rights" argument to fight the Corporate Nazis, the Environmentalists, at least in this case, are finally on the "Rights" track, though we think the idea of "Community Rights" is an incorrect one which the Corporations can easily slap down. This is because a "Community" is a Collectivist Entity, just like a Corporation. Both are Notional Concepts, mere intellectual phantoms, and not a real Individual Human Being like you, with Inalienable Rights protected by Jefferson's beautiful Bill of Rights. If a "Community", which is a Collective, can have Rights, it will be argued, then why not a Corporation, which is also a Collective in our view, although without the coercion of being forced to stay in that Collective (i.e. a worker can walk off the job and quit; an investor can sell his stock).
Moreover, the "community rights" issue is actually a false attempt to enlarge the Jeffersonian concept of Natural Rights. Natural Rights were only inherent in Individual Human Beings, we'd guess in Jefferson's mind, because at the time environmental pollution and deforestation in America probably never entered into men's consciousness. Back then, someone might decry the cutting of a particular grove or area that they loved, but the environmental degradation the upcoming generations are currently facing has gone way beyond that.
However, in establishing a "community rights" concept in Law, the Environmentalists are establishing, or rather re-inforcing, a dangerous anti-Jeffersonian concept — the concept of collective Rights. This phoney and false concept is the very reason Corporations have been able to establish and maintain such a massive violation of the Bill of Rights against Individual Citizens, as well as enabling whole groups to shift their tax burthen to other, less powerful groups and Individuals, both vile forms of cozenage. For example, married people and people with children getting huge tax deductions in the form of exemption credits which single people don't qualify for (although if we continue to have the immoral income tax, then people with children under 17 should continue to get a tax deduction for up to two children). This massive injustice has gone on for decades, and is soon to be expanded with the legalization of Gay marriage. Such inequalities are corrupt and immoral, but you'll never hear the Democratic politicians using their bully pulpit to denounce them, and call for their immediate abolition. On the contrary, they applaud it.
So, the establishment of "community rights" is a dangerous, collectivist phantom, that does not exist. However, since most of America passively accepts these collectivist injustices, such as corporate tax breaks and privileges, and marriage tax breaks, then going for "community rights" fits in nicely with the deception. If it helps halt attacks on Individual Free-Marketeer's bodies and lands, then it is worth trying.
Another problem with the concept of "community rights" is: who defines the "community"? Is it a specific geographic area, and who gets the power to decide where the boundaries are? Now, in this case of Josephine County, the boundaries of the "community" are the borders of the county, so the concept is limited, at least to that extent in this case. But what about the members of the community who want the spraying and clearcut logging to continue? What about the people who hate trees, want to kill off Nature, and are so misanthropic that they want to see an end to the Human Being. Aren't the Necrophiles entitled to community rights also, since they are part of the community, and it could not be defined as a community without them?
Obviously, the idea of "community" can be extended outwardly indefinitely unto the utmost inhabited regions of the Earth. In actuality, the only "community" on the planet is Human Beings; it includes everybody. But we obviously don't have control of what happens in "communities" in Siberia or North Korea. And in the short run, we think it imperative for Jeffersonian Classical Liberalism, that America continue to exist as a separate country, since it has the most Libertarian Constitution in the world, and by merging America into a "world community" at the present time, that Constitution would be quickly overthrown by the 80% of the world that is still Totalitarian.
No, the Environmentalists need to stick to one simple point: defending Individual Rights, (and ultimately those are all Individual Property Rights). That's all Jefferson bit off, and it's plenty. Don't complicate it by saying that "ecosystems" or "natural communities" have Rights, because most of the American public, and certainly the legal scholars, won't buy that. Animals don't even have rights in America; they can be butchered and eaten by their owners, or butchered and have their corpses sold, to be pleached and plaited with human spittle; they can be slowly tortured to death in useless experiments at universities. What a vile end to a joyous life that began as a chick or a calf or a goat kid or a lamb or a baby salmon!
So if animals don't have rights in America, and trees don't have rights, you're not going to convince a judge or the voting public that "ecosystems or natural communities" have rights, although "natural communities" does include in its concept both the ecosystem and the people living in it, so it might have rights because it involves Individual Humans by definition. But it still fails on the grounds of instilling rights in things other than Humans, which we don't think will wash with the courts or the public.
However, this is picking tiny flaws in what is otherwise a seemingly well-wrought piece of legislation. One very important point this Bill does address, and it is a point Silverwolf has put forth many times in his posts, is that Individuals must be put above Corporations in the eyes of the Law. Our Jeffersonian Constitution speaks only of Individual Rights; it says nothing about Corporate Rights, and so, in our Laws, Libertarians must fight solely for Individual Rights, for the idea of "Corporate Rights" is an oxymoron and a lie. Collectives don't have Rights; Individuals do.
So kudos on the Environmental Revolutionaries who crafted this wonderful, though slightly flawed bill. This Libertarian howl of Freedom is for you, and for the necessary coming day when we shall see the marriage of Jeffersonian Classical Liberalism or Libertarianism with the Environmentalists, who are Libertarian Defenders of the Earth and Private Property Rights, but don't know it yet.
Hooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf
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The old adage goes; if you have a cold and see the doctor, you'll be better in 14 days. If you don't go to the doctor, it will take you two weeks to feel well. That is, of course, unless you have MS. Well, at least my MS.
Though I don't come down with the common cold very often, the old rhinovirus came a calling this weekend. I'll take responsibility for letting myself get run down with all of the events on my calendar last week. Couple them with the change in seasons, Seattle's notoriously wet weather and lets just call it a touch of stress and anxiety and I was a cold waiting to happen.
I find, however, that when I do get a cold it's nothing more than a two or three day ordeal anymore. On Friday night, after a very long day of shooting video for an upcoming series on MS and a goodbye dinner with dear friends, I felt that high in the back of your sinuses scratching that foretells a cold. By 3:00am on Saturday morning I was unable to sleep for the hot and cold flashes, constantly running nose and body aches. Sunday morning found me flat out but by the evening I was feeling on the mend.
Today, I'm up and about and all that remains is a bit of a deep voice and a bit of coughing. I guess having an immune system that is so revved up that it will "eat" my brain tissue takes care of the common cold in record time.
This is also the season of flu shots and we all know that they are recommended for people living with chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis. Many people wonder about that and you should ask your MS doc to make sure. Just don't take the "live", nasal spray version of the vaccine. That's not the one for us.
I'd like to take a moment to offer our collective thanks and well wishes to all of the folks at Everyday Health. The offices in NYC were closed due to flooding in and around the building. Many of the friends that help get the blog posted, your comments filed and our community promoted are having a tough go of it after the storm.
Please, if you have the means make a donation to the American Red Cross to help with the disaster relief. I'm told that everyone is alright from the staff but power is still out to many of their neighborhoods and they're still trying to get our blogs posted.
All the best to the gang back in New York!
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, look for our very special new monthly blog for the National MS Society, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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According to a study by the Alliance for Biking and Walking, NYC is the only city in America where none of their buses are equipped for carrying bicycles. Even Las Vegas has them. This would definitely make a huge difference in more remote locations like Staten Island.
Here is a video by streetfilms.org exploring the study and building the case for NYC to get with the program. (I've been saying this for years.)
The Case for Bike Racks on NYC Buses from Streetfilms on Vimeo.


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The town of Bad Lauterberg in the Harz mountains is a recognised hydrotherapy spa resort that is also known for its Schroth treatments – a combination that will appeal to all health-conscious travellers.
Whereas holistic treatments based on the findings of Sebastian Kneipp can help to prevent and treat illnesses, the Schroth programme – a naturopathic therapy based around taking curative waters – is an effective detox method that rids your body of impurities and stimulates the body's own healing powers.
In the best of hands
Bad Lauterberg is also well-equipped with medical facilities, and has specialist clinics for cardiovascular and circulatory conditions, for sports medicine and physiotherapy, for diabetes and metabolic disorders, and for orthopaedics and rheumatology. With such a wide range of highly acclaimed healthcare services on offer, you're bound to feel the benefit!
So much to see and do – all year round
Unwind at Vitamar water park or in the Kirchberg thermal baths. Nordic walking, mountain biking, tennis, swimming and horse riding: there is a wide range of leisure activities on offer, including in nearby walking hotspots such as the Oder reservoir and the Südharz Karst Walking Trail as well as at regional attractions such as South Harz ironworks museum. And the fun and exercise in the great outdoors needn't stop for the winter months, thanks to the 47km network of cross-country ski trails and the 300m ski piste.
Spa gardens beneath age-old trees
You are always guaranteed peace, quiet and relaxation in the idyllic spa gardens, which boast a magnificent stock of mature trees, as well as ponds, a music pavilion and the historical Kurhaus.
Last but not least, the resort's small old quarter is a popular place to browse the shops or visit traditional inns, cafés and restaurants.
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Braunstone Growing Project
December 18, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm| Free
Join us, in our Community Garden to grow fresh fruit and vegetables for the Braunstone Foodshare Scheme.
If you like gardening, being in the sun and aren't afraid of getting your hands dirty why not come along to help out.
We have three different sites based around Braunstone and will be doing a range of Gardening all year round. Who knows you might find it as relaxing as we do…
To get involved contact us today on: 0116 223 2256…


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|Retro platforming adventure, released on XBLA, PSN, PC and Mac. (Might and Delight, 2010-2012)
|Avoid eye contact with fellow commuters on the Stockholm subway. (AS3, 2008)
|A silly game about the serious subjects of interactivity and false choices. (AS3, 2008)
|One button mobile phone game developed in five days. School project. (J2ME, 2008)
|2D motocross game. (AS2, 2005)